The Thinker of Marousi: Conversations with Yannis Tsarouchis. Memories of the friendship between journalist Maria Karavia and Tsarouchis the painter; the book centres on his way of thinking and his work and uses interviews, images and reminiscences to build up a personal testament of the painter's life. Greek language text. 50 b&w photographs.

The Museum, one of the most important in Greece, houses masterpieces of Greek art associated with the history of Ancient Macedonia, from the 2nd millennium BC to the 4th century BC and the reigns of Philip II and Alexander the Great. The Guide presents the rich, varied finds from important Macedonian sites. 240 col illus. Greek language text.

Holy Land: Illustrated Proskynetaria 17th-18th Centuries is devoted to a category of manuscripts known as proskynetaria, which contain descriptions of the monuments of Palestine, especially the Christian ones. The manuscripts have many similarities with modern travel books, or with tourist guides to archaeological sites. Greek language text. 100+ col. illus.

The Old Babylonian contracts found at Nippur during the 1888-1901 excavations of the University of Pennsylvania Expedition are housed in the Archeological Museum in Istanbul, in the Hilprecht Collection in Jena, and in the University Museum in Philadelphia. This microfiche contains 70 unpublished contracts in the Philadelphia collection.

The ninth published volume of twelve, presenting the whole work off the Oriental Institute's Iraq Expedition in the Diyala region. This volume focuses on Ishchali (usually identified as ancient Nêribtum), which belonged to the independent kingdom of Eshnunna. The bulk of the report is devoted to the Kitîtum Temple.

Its over four hundred images make this manuscript (Cotton Claudius B. iv) one of the most extensively illustrated books to survive from the early Middle Ages and preserve evidence of the creativity of the Anglo-Saxon artist and his knowledge of other important early medieval picture cycles.

This new, greatly expanded edition, brings readers inside the dojos of a number ancient schools of Japanese martial arts, providing details analysis of the evolution and morphology of uniquely Japanese weaponry, addressing the myth and reality of Japan's naginata-wielding warrior women, and discussing the modern relevance of the blood oaths, magical ritual and mysticism that often permeate the koryu. 125 b& w illustrations.

Dimitris Papageorgiou's book Olympia and the Olympic Games is the first guidebook in Greek for the antiquities of Olympia, and of the first systematic excavations in the sanctuary of Olympia which lasted for six years, from 1975 to 1881. Greek language. 45 b&w illustrations, including fold-out map of Olympia.

This is a book for theatre-lovers, written for anyone who shares the author's curiosity about the art of acting and about theatre past and present. Three sections cover from the Elizabethan period to the 20th century.